text: *in 1827, the mineral davyne was named in his honour by W. Haidinger.
  *Annually since 1877, the Royal Society of London has awarded the Davy Medal "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry."
  *The Davy lunar crater is named after him. It has a diameter of 34 km and its coordinates are 11.8S, 8.1W.
  *Davys passion for fly-fishing earned him the informal title "the father of modern fly-fishing", and his book Salmonia' is often considered to be "the fly-fisherman bible".
  *The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said he "attended Davy's lectures to enlarge my stock of metaphors".